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    Help identify device on power lines?

    Hello everyone, Can someone tell me what the device is that's highlighted in this picture? http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php/774292_tower.JPG.html It LOOKS like a smaller version of the insulators on the pole, but looks like it's wired up to be some sort of suppressor- as one side of it...
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    What are those barbells on the power-lines!!??

    Reply to skogsgurra: I doubt the top lines [are] isolated. I don't think THEY have these devices on them. The fact that they were NOT on the ground wire- let me to believe they were some sort of lightning/surge suppression attachment. (Don't ask how I expected it to work- it was all I could...
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    What are those barbells on the power-lines!!??

    Hello everyone, Just a longstanding curiosity of mine: On the power lines near-by; the lines running alongside interstate roads...not those feeding homes...... Near each insulator I see what I can only describe as a small "barbell" shaped thing attached to the line..... From a distance, it...

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